Hundreds of little hearts. Never has one of his tweets been loved so much. Last Thursday, Dr. Pierre Chollet posted on the social network a selfie of the pulmonology team at the Agen-Nérac hospital accompanied by this text: “In the fight against Covid-19: we want to treat, relieve, to cure our patients, in short, to win against this p… of virus as when our SUA does not give up anything in Brive or Bayonne “. Determination deep in the eyes, masks, a united, mobilized group … there is hope in this image.
Politically committed and a big supporter of the Sporting rugby team, Dr. Pierre Chollet is above all a pulmonologist. Since the beginning of last week, his unit has been preparing to face the health crisis. “The team spirit within our service is fundamental. This photo was taken when we received meals offered by a restaurant owner from Agen while we are all at work.”
Touched by this mark of sympathy, he also salutes “internal solidarity”. “The surgical procedures were deprogrammed,” he says, and immediately the anesthesiologists and surgeons volunteered to come and help on platforms dedicated to Covid-19. We also collaborate with our infectious disease colleagues from Doctor Patrick Rispal “.
“ The problem is going to be
to hold in time “
Like all health professionals, Dr. Chollet evokes this famous wave with this flood of patients who surge in hospitals. “She got up, she’s coming to our place, he notes, but everyone in the medical and paramedical field has returned to the field. The world of health has changed to buffer the major impact of this epidemic. The reorganization is remarkable. We have worked to dampen the tide. ” For him, “the problem will especially be to hold over time”. “How long can we last?”
Pierre Chollet has never experienced such a situation, “never”, he repeats. “It is a pandemic with a very high contagiousness and a very high degree of mortality too. We must remain reassuring because 98% of patients are coping with it. I did not expect to live that one day. As a pulmonologist, I know well the history of the flu and I moan often because we do not talk about it enough when it kills 8 to 10,000 people a year. But if the mortality of the flu, it is one per 1000, it is is 30 per 1000 “.
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